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Weekend Edition: 10-29

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Consider the context (“A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it’s the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.”)

Quack Prophet (“Whether it’s the Dead Sea Scrolls or Finnegan’s Wake, there’s a long literary history of taking the garbled and the fragmented and looking […]

Book Review: A History of the World Since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfeild

The main ramifications of historic events are frequently easy to see. Often, though, we overlook the ripples that produce unexpected, or even untended, effects. Take 9/11, for example. It didn’t take a great deal of thought to realize it would bring the U.S. into direct armed conflict with al-Qaeda. And it was barely six weeks […]

Weekend Edition: 10-22

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As for my weekend, let’s leave it at saying Herman’s Hermits groupies (several years older than me) are not a pretty sight.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why We Love the Porn of War (“Really, there isn’t much of a distinction left between porn and snuff, between selling sex and selling death, […]

Newton’s first law sets in

I’m behind on writing reviews and have not been implementing ideas for other posts. I have several review books lined up ahead of even more books I’ve been wanting to read for a while. Still, I find a touch of consolation in the fact the same thing is happening in London.

I actually have a […]

Weekend Edition: 10-15

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Occupy Sioux Falls is this afternoon.

At about the same time the Twin Cities Book Festival is being held in downtown Minneapolis.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Humor speaks truth: Wrong People Arrested on Wall Street (“NYPD spokesman Frank Hannefy explained the controversial decision to arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters while […]